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Continued disappointment for Trans Americans at US passport office
Seattle Gay News - Washington State
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Transgender applicants and their families experienced familiar disappointment in Seattle on Wednesday, June 18 at the US passport office on Fifth Avenue. The day before, it was announced that US District Judge Julia Kobick had widened an...
US Justice Department Warns of Threats to Jewish Targets as Concern Mounts Over Iranian Sleeper Cells
Algemeiner Journal
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June 26, 2025
The US Department of Justice is closely tracking potential threats to the Jewish community nationwide amid growing concerns over Iranian sleeper cells launching attacks and fallout from recent American and Israeli military strikes on Iran’s...
10 boutique hotels for your next stay in Oaxaca city
Mexico News Daily
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June 27, 2025
The quaint city of Oaxaca is nestled in the Sierra Madre mountains, where two of Mesoamerica’s most prominent civilizations were born: the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, whose modern descendants call themselves Ben Zaa and Ñuu Savi, respectively. These...
Venezuela: Trapped in an authoritarian maze
LINKS
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June 26, 2025
First published in Spanish at Nueva Sociedad. Translation by Richard Fidler for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Following the July 2024 presidential elections, and the official refusal to release disaggregated results, Nicolás...
Pride, DEI, and Corporate Authenticity
Twin Cities Business - Minnesota
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June 27, 2025
Twin Cities Pride made headlines this year when it dropped Target as a corporate sponsor in response to the retail giant rolling back DEI efforts. That left the nonprofit, which organizes the annual downtown Minneapolis Pride parade and...
Pricesmart Announces Change To Previously Scheduled Conference Call
MENAFN
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June 27, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) SAN DIEGO, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceSmart, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: PSMT ) today announced that it will hold its conference call related to its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025 on...
Let’s be clear what Iran strike debate is about
The Minot Daily News - North Dakota
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Even Americans who loathe President Donald Trump should be capable of seeing that the U.S. and the world are safer without a nuclear-capable Iran. But Trump derangement is blinding them. Saturday night, Trump and the U.S. military executed a...
Tariffs Threaten Tobacco Accessories, Supply Chain as Retailers Adapt
Convenience Store Decisions
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June 26, 2025
As on-again, off-again tariffs roil markets, retailers are watching for possible impacts on the tobacco category while customers are pulling back on spending and finding opportunities to trade down. According to Observatory of Economic Complexity,...
How the Republican megabill targets immigrant finances
CNBC
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June 26, 2025
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to reporters at Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025 in Washington. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images News | Getty Images A Republican megabill that lawmakers are trying to pass by the Fourth of July would...
COMMENTARY: Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human
News Tribune - Missouri
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June 25, 2025
In March, the Trump administration deported 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, allegedly for membership in the criminal organization Tren de Aragua. According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, these men were "terrorists" and "heinous...
Nursing homes face 2 threats: Trump’s Medicaid cuts and his immigration crackdown
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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June 26, 2025
Jackline Conteh, one of many African-born caregivers at the Goodwin House Alexandria nursing home, cares for the Rev. Donald Goodness, 92. Nursing homes are subject to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids under the Trump administration....
Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 12. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 2)
Resilience
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June 26, 2025
Welcome to Human Nature Odyssey. In this 3 part series we’re exploring the history of the left / right political spectrum and the 250 year struggle for democracy. This is Part 2. I’m Alex Leff. History is a relay race. The past hands the baton...
How a Favored Migrant Route Became Invasive Species Superhighway to US
Newsweek
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June 23, 2025
The Darién Gap, long a perilous route for millions of migrants traveling north toward the United States, has also become a pathway for the northward spread of the New World screwworm—a parasitic fly now challenging decades of containment efforts....
Unrelenting Bolivarian Resistance against Stubborn US Aggression
Dissident Voice
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June 24, 2025
by Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris / June 24th, 2025 On the eve of Venezuela’s presidential election on 29 July 2024, Guardian correspondents, Tiago Rogero (based in Rio de Janeiro) and Sam Jones (based in Madrid) predicted the vote “could...
Los Horcones, Honduras: Reflections on a Massacre and Its Legacy
CovertAction Magazine
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June 25, 2025
[Source: cac.unah.edu.hn] June 25 marked the 50th anniversary of the Los Horcones massacre, a gruesome and desperate event that still haunts Honduran society and is emblematic of major forces that have shaped much of modern global history....
CMC invites you to Cuba
Sopris Sun - Colorado
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June 25, 2025
Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is offering an opportunity this fall for students and interested community members to travel to Cuba through a faculty- led study abroad program. The 11-day, 10-night trip is scheduled for Nov. 21 through Dec. 1,...
KALW Almanac - Monday June 23, 2025
KALW - California
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Today is Monday, the 23rd of June of 2025, June 23 is the 174th day of the year 191 days remain until the end of the year. 91 days until autumn begins Sunrise at 5:48:45 am and sunset will be at 8:35:51 pm. We will have 14 hours and 47 minutes of...
Fed Chair Says Trump Immigration Policies Slowing Economic Growth
Forbes
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gestures as he speaks at a press conference after the ... More Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on December 18, 2024. At a Congressional hearing, Powell said the Trump administration’s...
ICE Florida Jobsite Arrests Show Past Deportations and Charges
Engineering News Record
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June 23, 2025
Bernardo Chavez-Chavez was indicted May 30 by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Florida. Document courtesy of the office of U.S. Attorney Jack Heekin Six people arrested during a Tallahassee, Fla., construction site enforcement...
World News | The US and Iran Have an Enmity for the Ages. After the Bombs, a New Chapter Begins
Latestly
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June 25, 2025
Washington, Jun 25 (AP) Now comes a new chapter in US-Iran relations, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages — the threats, the plotting, the poisonous rhetoric between...